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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU binutils 2.29 uploaded.
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Am 07.10.2017 23:45, schrieb Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]:
> Am 05.08.2017 01:09, schrieb Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]:
>> Am 02.08.2017 05:11, schrieb Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]:
>>>> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 01:04:29 +0200
>>>> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]"<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
>>>>
>>>> IMHO it is easier to fix stdio.h than start endless discussion with the binutils
>>>> maintainers. I do not think that the DJGPP user group is still so large that
>>>> some one will be hurd if we change _doprnt by __doprnt or something similar.
>>>
>>> Renaming our _doprnt is certainly doable, but it means some
>>> application that really needs our _doprnt will now become broken.
>>>
>>> An alternative would be to move _doprint to some other header, like
>>> libc/doprnt.h.
>>
>>
>> I have moved the _doprnt, _doscan and _doscan_low declarations to libc/doprnt.
>> The file name is arbitrary. If some one has a more appropriate one, please
>> let me know. I have intentionaly moved also _doscan and _doscan_low together
>> with _doprnt. I have seen no reasons to move one of them and let the other
>> ones. This shall avoid possible future issues.
>> It is ok with me if someone likes to send a DJGPP specific fix to the binutils
>> maintainers. I have checked that binutils can be compiled without changes
>> with a libc modified by this patch.
>> If no one complains about these changes in a period of 3 or 4 weeks I will
>> assume that the changes have been accepted and will commit them.
>
>
> I had encouraged every DJGPP user to send a patch to fix the _doprnt
> conflict in bfd.c. An inspection of binutils-2.29.1 shows that the
> issue has not been fixed and thus I have to assume that either no one
> has send a fix to the binutils maintainers or they have refused to fix
> this DJGPP specific issue. Thus I will commit the patch below today
> to fix this issue at libc level. As discussed before, the problematic
> declarations will be moved into a new header.

OFYI, I have commited the proposed changes.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero